how to get people to join a server

how do you think i can do this? extremely annoying when people join, ask for dev, get rejected and leave, so also how do i not attract the wrong audience?

No basically everyone has that in beginning and even concurrent throughout their time with making the server into somethnig.

People on my darkrp always ask for cash or admin, etc.. one even asked if i need dev help (when i literally first began, i declined and never saw again).

Just ignore the players who come and beg, they won't stay regardless if the server doesn't grow fast enough for their interests.

/tldr; pretty normal, just ignore and keep working on whatever you're doing.

Flashy titles , Bots <--- make it seem as if you have players , Small special gamemodes <-- that are popular.

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not everyone gets admin, especially friends you want users then more users will come

Keep your server open for a couple months, If you don't get any players you're doing something wrong.

Make a sever WORTH joining by providing quality content and is unique and varying from other communities and servers!!!!!

On my Star Wars RP i started really tiny. but no i got like 30 - 50 users at any time. I think serve titles like NAME | Searching for team | Gamemode are great to start because users can find your server easily

A good name server will help as well as bots to simulate a "working" server

You can use bots. I mean, it's not THAT legit, but every big server has at least once used bot, I asked various owners of DarkRPs with 20-25 peoples connected constantly, and they used bots to advertise the server.